The image of the typical gamer has been something of a caricature: a rambunctious teenage male mashing buttons with his friends or a post-college mama’s boy cooped up in his parents’ basement.
Most of us acknowledge these stereotypes as funny exaggerations, but the crux of their humor lies in a key assumption — gamers are still portrayed as fundamentally male.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
I see nothing wrong whatsoever with female gamers. If it's something they enjoy, go for it.
Just because there are more of them doesn't automatically mean they are going to be treated better, let alone equally. I think you may be overestimating the maturity of the average gamer a bit.
Here we go again....
'gamers are still portrayed as fundamentally male'
Thats because they are...
These surveys are usually flawed, unless its a consensus thats based upon the entire nation then its target demographic has no grounding or basis to cast the assumption that 'female gamers equalize gaming'.
Been playing online games for years, i've heard female gamers over mics ingame a handful of times. Whether or not 99% of females gamers are mutes is a possibility or they only play offline? hmmmmm.
I've known maybe one or two female hardcore gamers. Just because someone on FB plays a few games does not make them a gamer. You can fuss about equality all you want, but the thematic elements in games are inherently masculine (competition, destruction, action) it will remain a male dominated thing.
Sure some game types may widen the gender appeal of certain classes of games but no amount of statistical spinning will change the reality of the fact that there will probably always be more men that are really "into" gaming than women. No one is stopping women from playing, it is just not as appealing because it does not resonate with their fundamental nature as much as it does to most men's, which really is not a problem. It's okay to have hobbies/activities that are more appealing to one gender or another.
No one (with any sense) complains that drag racing is a male dominated hobby or claims that it needs "fixing" because of this.
Start a sewing club and see how many men show up.
It's not prejudice, it's just self selection. Let us guys game and any ladies that want to show up: more power to you. The more the merrier. But for the most part you're looking at a sausage fest.